Highlighted by photographs and useful maps, these readable travel guides offer insider information from local authors about diverse regions of America for weekend travelers and explorers alike, featuring helpful tips on dining accommodations and lodgings, transportation, shopping, recreational activities, landmarks, cultural opportunities and more.
... Keith Swaney and Jim Folts at the New York State Archives, and Paul Doty and Paul Haggett at St. Lawrence University. Peg Olsen of the Adirondack chapter of the Nature Conservancy provided materials that allowed me to tell that ...
Reproduction of the original: American Boy’s Life of Theodore Roosevelt by Edward Stratemeyer
AMERICAN LITERATURE has its own railroad map, with tracks that meander from Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, through Willa Cather's Nebraska to Jack London's Alaska. Readers can add a new whistle-stop: John Bowers's Tennessee.
Presenting years of research by material culture scholars, archaeologists, historians, museum curators, military experts, and geophysicists, this definitive volume explores these important Revolutionary War battles and their aftermath, ...
No matter the behind-the-scenes squabbling that must have gone on, few today would argue with the names that emerged triumphant to christen the Hall: Johnson, Cobb, Wagner, Mathewson, and Babe Ruth. Imagine the conundrum of coming up ...
Charged with the utopian idea that no single narrative is more important than another, this book asserts that America could and ought someday to be a country where all narratives converge into one, a country we can all be proud to love and ...
Richard J. Orsi , in “ Wilderness Saint and ' Robber Baron ' : The Anomalous Partnership of John Muir and the Southern Pacific Company for Preservation of Yosemite National Park , ” Pacific Historian 29 ( Summer - Fall 1985 ) , 136-152 ...
This timely collection of essays, written by recognized forestry and environmental specialists, tells the story of the conservation, use, and changes in Massachusetts' forests over time. It begins with ecology...
Many investors, including some with substantial portfolios, have only the sketchiest idea of how the stock market works.
John Romeyn Brodhead , History of the State of New York ( New York , 1853 ) , 1:48 . he aptly named the Onrust : The historian Jerry E. Patterson also points out that " Onrust " is the name of an island , the last bit of dry land ...